deficit spending

deficit spending definition - finance
Spending that exceeds revenues. The term typically is associated with government spending. Governments issue debt to fund their deficit spending.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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